was the first, and is still the dominant, form of exploiting the breakthrough in public key cryptography, which uses pairs of keys, rather than single keys, to scramble and decode messages when sending them over insecure channels. to prove the system's soundness, gardner had asked the three...
Over the holidays, I readI Am Brian Wilson,the erstwhile Beach Boy’s second memoir (after the first, written under the heavy influence of his therapist/Svengali Dr. Eugene Landy, Wilson eventually disowned). I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it for anyone looking for a deep insight into his...
Google them yourself. I’m not your damn keyboardist. Well, I was, for a time, in the hazy progressive rock band days I don’t like to talk about, where we would eat mushrooms (see above) and spend hours contemplating the collected works of Frank Herbert before attempting to translate ...
Well, here we are all over again. December 31st, a little less than 6 hours left in the year, and a man’s thoughts are entirely absent from the moment at hand, instead both reflecting and looking forward. I wouldn’t say this was the greatest year of my life – it did have more ...
There’s no sense in applying the comforting coat of sugar, my American friends: you have some hard times ahead. The monsters you thought you’d driven under the bed over the last eight years are slithering back out to sink their greedy teeth into you, and this time they won’t be the...
“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.”– Margaret Thatcher (great line regardless of whether you supported her or not) We have a conscious choice to make when we start writing anything, whether to be positive or negative. Given ...
Moreover, it is equally as compelling to see the level of trust that is offered through those impressions, which speaks fondly to those who keep faith in an innate human goodness. Because we have no reason to believe, at all, that the character we’re seeing is genuine, that it isn’t...
Indeed, our very failure to check the expansion of the world’s supply of firepower, while enriching those who make the tools of murder, has only aggravated the foreboding hanging perpetually over every human head; like the famous doomsday clock inching ever closer to midnight, we seem to be...
Moreover, the PhenX fiber intake protocol was used to assess participants’ daily fiber intake aside from the wheat crackers during the study. The protocol allowed participants to report how often they consumed a fiber-containing food: never, less than once a day, once a day, twice a day, ...
To date, many effective ways to reduce the occurrence of NFCs in heat-treated and highly consumed starchy foods have been successfully established [12,17]. However, their effects on the sensory attributes of the final products have not been clearly elucidated [12,17]. Moreover, other relevant...